Felicia Skene, left, with her niece Zoe Thomson, wife of the Archbishop of York, and her brother William Forbes Skene, Historiographer Ro...

When I moved to Oxford I rather disapproved of the hostel next door, with its Victorian attitude to young, single mothers. I was not surpri...

Admit it, you’re sick to death of Crimea. Writing a series set in one war has made me rather single-minded, and looking back over my ti...